As has been noted elsewhere, ADD/ADHD is far more complex in truth than what I gave here -- but when you actually get to the issue of living with it, on a pragmatic level, it really does act more like a cognitive disability with major learning disability aspects. And for a long time I struggled with being known as having 'a disability', until one day I realized that here I was kicking myself for being broken, and around me were people with seeing-eye-dogs and orthopodic shoes that let them do track and eyeglasses and medication for diabetes and heart disease. And it dawned on me that this mental condition -- however you want to class it -- does have an effect, and does have a treatment. So why shouldn't its treatment be equally valid, as any other disability?
Sometimes I wonder if I would've spent so many years hating myself, if I'd been given that kind of a positive look on things from the very start.
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Date: 11 Jun 2010 05:52 am (UTC)Sometimes I wonder if I would've spent so many years hating myself, if I'd been given that kind of a positive look on things from the very start.